Dan’s Top 100 Everything: #97 Space Jam Remixes

One of the immutable axioms of music: every song sounds great mashed up with the Space Jam song.

I don’t know what it is about the song and its ridiculous beat and rapping by the Quad City DJ’s, most famous otherwise for the song “C’mon and Ride It.” But it’s like lead to an alchemist: it absorbs whatever you surround it with and turns into gold.

A good way to keep up with the thriving world of “mashing things up with the Space Jam song” is to browse http://reddit.com/r/comeonandslam, devoted completely to this fascinating and rewarding field.

These mashups make me smile 100% of the time. Here are ten of my favorites:

Carry On Wayward Slam

Among the most surprising successes. The two blend so perfectly, and this is one of the best editing jobs among any slam jams.

Slammmbop

Takes one of the most upbeat pop songs of the 1990’s and manages to make it even peppier. A delight.

Bill Slam the Science Jam

The background chant of “Bill! Bill! Bill!” blends so perfectly with the DJ’s rapping that it almost sounds like the song was designed that way.

My Slam Will Jam On

Well… that was unexpected. If you need proof of the previous cited axiom about how you can mash up the Space Jam song with literally ANY song, here it is.

Slam Me Maybe

One pleasure of the Space Jam mashups are the album covers created to accompany each song. The sight at 0:30 of this video…. can’t get it out of my brain.

What Is Slam? (Baby Don’t Hurt Me)

A great entry in the “wait, are you sure these songs weren’t conceived for the sole purpose of being mashed up together?” category.

DK Slam

Two ridiculous artifacts from the 1990s mashed up = perfection.

Never Gone Slam Your Jam

Not surprising, since it’s on the Internet, multiple people have mashed the Space Jam song up with the Rick Roll song. This is the best version of it.

It’s hard for me to give a nostalgia-free take on this matter. It has some funny moments and a great soundtrack. MJ is not great, but when you consider that a) he’s not a actor by trade, and b) he was acting opposite a green screen most of the time, his performance is actually kind of impressive. The story is kind of interesting, but probably not what you’d call “good.”

I think we can all agree that the Super Slam Bros Melee EP is the greatest, but I’m calling shenanigans on the Slamception of Space Space Jam Jam. I’m pretty sure that a song vs. itself is just the definition of a remix of the song.